App.net crawls out from Twitter's shadow with Broadcast: notifications for anything

App.net CEO Dalton Caldwell once promised a better Twitter — "a real time social feed without the ads" that wouldn’t crush the dreams of its developer community. A little over a year later, App.net has accumulated 200,000 users and a vibrant community of developers building great apps, but it’s unclear how many are actively using App.net for its original purpose. Caldwell claims he never intended to build a Twitter clone after all — that was just part of the marketing. He built a platform for social apps which included support for push notifications, messages, feeds, and profiles, but none of it'd really stuck. Caldwell decided that something needed to change.

via Tech News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/21/5130224/app-net-broadcasts-mobile-alerts-anything-on-the-internet